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Dutch out of frying pan...

It does not get any easier for Holland as today they take on Australia

FOR FOUR years Daan van Bunge has been able to dine out on his bowling feat at the World Cup. He was the amateur leg-spinner who dismissed Michael Vaughan and Andrew Flintoff in the space of three balls. Not any more. Meet Daan van Bunge, the first man to be hit for six sixes in an over in international cricket.

The combination of the short boundaries of Warner Park in St Kitts and a rampant Herschelle Gibbs proved too much for the 24-year-old, and when he nervously dragged his sixth delivery down short, the South African had time to pick his spot in the crowd. He chose deep midwicket, several rows back, to enter the record books alongside Garry Sobers and Ravi Shastri, who performed the feat in domestic games.

"There were a few good balls in it and a few s*** balls," reflected Luuk van Troost, Holland's captain. "He